Thank you to all who attended the Dalguise Information Evening tonight. The PowerPoint is available to view below for those of you who could not attend.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/dalguise-parents-evening
Category Archives: Learning Stories
P1 Community Charter
Over the last few weeks, Primary 1 have been learning all about our six School Values. We talked together in pairs and in groups, and shared our ideas about each one. At the moment, we are particularly interested in what it means to be Enthusiastic, and we have shown lots of enthusiasm for our learning each day. As we have all settled down together, we have started to make new friends and demonstrated what it means to be friendly and inclusive too . We will continue to talk about and demonstrate our School Values on a regular basis.
We have also talked about the Rights of the Child, and made links to our School Values.
Last week we put all this together and created our Community Contract. Each balloon contains something that the Primary 1 children think is important for us to demonstrate in and around the classroom. We are earning lots of Dojo points as we remember to use our Community Contract! Well Done Primary 1.
P7/6 Class Charter
Primary 7/6 have been thinking about the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child and how we can respect these rights in school. As a class we discussed the Rights of a Child and looked at each article, deciding upon what article’s we would respect within the classroom and what we would do to respect them. As we are reading ‘The World’s Worst Children’ at the moment, we decided that this would be the theme of our class charter. We have also been discussing how our school values link to our class charter. The children all designed their own ‘World’s Worst Children’….Gusty Gail, Taco Tim, Itchy Izzy and Debbie Dragon Girl, to name but a few!! We have all signed this to show that we will work together to build and maintain a great community over the coming year.
Primary 3 and Primary 3/2 Learning Letter Term 1
P2 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 1 of Primary 2. I hope you all had a relaxing summer break. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting term. Over the first few weeks we have been working hard to establish a positive and effective classroom ethos. This has included getting to know each other, and creating our own Community Contract, which helps pupils, staff and visitors to understand how the school values and children’s rights are respected within our classroom.
Mrs George, P2/1 Teacher
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p2-meet-theteacher-ppt
P7/6 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 7/6. All the children are settling well in to P7/6 and over the last fortnight we have been doing a lot of community building exercises to ensure that the children get to know each other. This term the children are looking forward to learning about the World War 2. The children will soon be asked to join a Junior Leadership Team and we look forward to making positive changes within our school this year. Children will be challenged each morning with quick start activities including Maths, Literacy and thinking problems to stimulate their learning in the morning.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/meet-the-teacher-p76-201617
P1 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 1 of Primary 1. I hope you all had a relaxing summer break. In school we are looking forward to a busy and exciting term. Over the first few weeks we have been working hard to establish a positive and effective classroom ethos. This has included getting to know each other, and creating our own Community Contract, which helps pupils, staff and visitors to understand how the school values and children’s rights are respected within our classroom.
Mrs Smith, P1 Teacher
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p1-meet-theteacher-2016
P5 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 5. All of the children have settled well into P5 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term. So far, the children have participated in a community building fortnight where we have been getting to know each other, creating our class charter and becoming familiar with our new class routines. We also had a mini focus on our school value of being inclusive. We have begun our new IDL context for learning, The Romans, and the children have created a set of questions that they would like to find the answers to and we will be exploring these through the topic.
Miss Sherlow and Mrs Stewart
P5 teachers
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/meet-the-teacher-p5-201617
iAchieve
We launched our new approach to achievement last week at Meet the Teacher. Each child now has a copy of their iAchieve level (you can download these below) and this is used to tracked their achievements. When they have achieved three of the tasks in each box they will receive a certificate in class or at a Friday Assembly and move on to the next area within their level, for example if they complete Brilliant Bronze for Responsible Citizen they will move on to Super Silver.
If the achievement has been completed at home the pupil can fill out an iAchieve sheet (found below) which are available from their class teacher. Primary 4 to 6 have the option of using their iAchieve blog (the link to these blogs are above and pupils will require their Glow password as these blogs are private) and Primary 7 can use Didbook, to record their achievements.
Our Achievement Assemblies will now be Celebration Assemblies, these will celebration our achievements for that term and pupils will be presented with a Literacy and STEM Award as nominated by their class teacher. The parents/ carers of that pupil will be invited along to the assembly.
Nursery Charter
This week in the nursery we have been discussing our nursery charter. The children worked in their small groups with their adult to decide on what they would like to feel like in the nursery and the things that make them happy. They decided that being kind, sharing, helping each other and listening to each other were important if we were going to play, learn and be safe. The children then decorated a kind hand and spoke about what they used their kind hands for.
“My kind hands will always be kind.” Amelia-Jo
“My kind hands give love to everybody that wants to go to the park.” Hannah
“My kind hands share.” Erin
“My hands are kind to people who are sad.” Lola
We took these ideas and put them in to our charter and we think it’s looking great!
